Waiting on God

As humans, we all know that having to wait for things is hard. It really is. Depending on what we're trying to wait on and be patient for, waiting for someting can be a real pain sometimes. I've so been there and I bet that many of you guys have too. We hate having to wait for many different things but what about waiting on God? What happens when we ask God something and we have to wait for an answer? What should we do while we are waiting for that college acceptance letter to come in? Are we just supposed to sit back and be upset every day the letter doesn't come? Are we supposed to pray? Well let's explore what we are supposed to be doing while we wait on God.

Romans 12:12 says, "Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer."

While you are waiting on Him, God wants to use this time to grow you in your relationship through Him. He doesn't want us to just sit back over here waiting on something and not involving him in the process at all! Because God is a loving God, he longs to see the best in us. It all comes back to the point that God all has a plan and purpose for us(Jeremiah 29:11), and he wants to be involved in our daily lives. While we wait on Him for something, we are being given a chance to give something over to Him that we know we can't do on our own. Let me use an example.

When it comes time to send those college applications off, that is usually a very stressful time of high school. If you're going to college and you applied, usually you have more than one college that means a bit more to you that you really want to go to. This college has a higher level of importance to you than the others, though I'm sure you'd want to be accepted either way. But wouldn't you be excited for all the letters that came in? Yes, more than likely. But say you had gotten all of your letters in but the letter from the college you really wanted, it would be a lot harder to wait for that one, wouldn't it? Of course. That's just the way we work, as humans. We can become very impatient on God.

But actually, in this case above, what would you do while you were waiting on God to give you that letter from the college? Romans 12:12 above says that we should rejoyce in hope. This means that we should have hope for that letter that's coming. We should be trusting of God that he's going to get us that letter exactly when we need it, at the perfect time. It says that we should be patient with tribulation. In this case, the tribulation would just be waiting for the letter. But hey, that can get stressful right? We're supposed to have patience and just wait on the letter's arival. God knows what he's doing. He has the plan for our lives so mapped out, he knows the exact moment that letter's going to arrive. And in your plan, it's the perfect timing. Remember that. It also says to be constant in prayer. This isn't like, some joke. Or some small section of the Bible that we're just supposed to go, "Ohh yeah. I remember that somewhere..." and go on with our daily lives with. It says to be constant in prayer. This isn't because God doesn't want us to do anything else with our lives. Not at all. But we can pray and talk to him, while we are doing the other things in our life as well. He just wants us to continually keep Him in the loop, so to speak. It's so much easier to wait for something while you have God there to wait with you. He's always there with you, but when you acknowledge He's there, everything becomes easier.

So. Just to recap a bit, here are the three steps we should be taking when we are waiting on God, for anything:

1) Rejoice in Hope

2) Be Patient in Tribulation

3) Be Constant in Prayer

I'll be honest girls, this isn't really an easy thing to do. When we're waiting for things, we can often become realy impatient and want our answers now. But when we remember to do these things, waiting on God becomes so much easier. Let's go into this next week here remembering this, and trying to impliment it into our daily lives. I, for one, will be implimenting this into my own life as well. :)

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~Angelica

When I Grow Up, I Wanna Be . . .

When I was little, I remember always dreaming of what I wanted to be when I was this so-called "grown up". I believe that first and foremost I wanted to be a waitress. This girl had big dreams when she was 5. Then I remember it turned into being an author. (That particular thing is still on my list of things to do, but it's not in the forefront of my mind anymore).

I finished my high school credits in February of this year. The feeling was amazing. I was FINALLY done with school. I could finally be done with school and never have to do it again if I didn't want to! I never had to open another text book or take another quiz or test.

Wow, living the dream, right? I'd have thought so. But even though it feels that way, my truthfulness will tell you that this was a step in my life that scared the bajeepers out of me.

I was then done with school. I then had to figure out if 1.) I wanted to go to college, or 2.) I wanted to continue on my career path.

My choice was career. I was already working for a small business and working as a part-time receptionist, and my cousin offered me the job to nanny her kids three days a week. I love to work and didn't want to go to college, so this is an exciting step that I will be taking.

Growing up isn't easy. And we wanted to grow up quickly? Why? Because it's part of our nature. We want to be an adult, we want to be treated like an adult, we want to make money, we want to move out and go to college, etc. 

In the last few months, I have had a falling out with a friend. She and I are no longer the best friends that we had been for years. We were growing up to be very different people than we were a few years ago. It seems like everything should stay the same - that we should be able to mend what went on and move on. And sometimes that's possible.

But I've realized that another part of growing up is growing apart from the people that we were close to. Friendships that were once great go from talking every day to talking every week, and then never talking. People we looked up to start to let us down.

I know that I've changed in the last few years. I have matured a lot, I have finished high school, have stepped into the work force and started making money and I have grown a lot closer to God. I know that I am never going to be the Ashley that I was a few years ago.

That Ashley always had time to do anything she wanted - she was bored, too, wishing she had things to do. The new Ashley is busy and barely has time for anything other than work! But that's okay. God knows what he's doing in my life.

And girls, God knows what he's doing in your life, as well! He knows exactly what you're going to do when you grow up, he knows exactly who your friends are going to be. He loves you and wants you to trust him in your life!

"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper and not to harm you. Plans to give you a hope and a future." Jeremiah 29:11






"There is hope for me yet
Because God won't forget
All the plans he's made for me
I have to wait & see
He's not finished with me yet."


Don't get discouraged if your life isn't exactly how you dreamed it up to be - and you're not just who you want to be or what you want to be. God has a plan for who you're supposed to be when you grow up! Let him be the lead of your life and it'll happen in His timing!

~Ashley

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